IoT - Connected bikes

USING Kuzzle TO CONNECT A FLEET OF BIKES

La Bécanerie is a leading French vendor of specialized parts for bicycles, motorcycles and scooters. They carry more than 160,000 products that they deliver nationwide and are constantly looking to offer new products and services to stay ahead of their competitors.

Goal

La Bécanerie wanted to offer their customers a unique experience with an innovative smart bike. They ultimately came up with the idea for a connected bike that would offer an advanced set of features, including a theft protection service. To this end, La Bécanerie asked Kuzzle to provide a proof-of-concept that:

Could be delivered within an aggressive timeframe

Could demonstrate the feasability and scalability of the concept

Could be tested in real-life environments and conditions

Description

Each smart bike carries a sensor that periodically transmits its location to Kuzzle through a Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) network, we selected Sigfox as our LPWA as it covers the entire french territory. As the biker navigates into and out of specified geographical zones, Kuzzle detects these changes and sends out alerts to designated subscribers. Additionally, a user can view the bike’s location on a map (in real-time), can set custom geographical zones and can specify how the app should send alerts, either by email or SMS.

How Kuzzle Helped

Thanks to Kuzzle's out of the box features, La Bécanerie was able to focus on the business logic for this proof-of-concept without having to deal with the complexity of the backend. In the end, La Bécanerie dedicated a single front-end developer to the project, and with some help from the Kuzzle documentation and the Kuzzle Fullstack Team, the developer completed a fully functional proof-of-concept that leveraged the following Kuzzle features:

Geofencing & Geotracking

Real-time notifications using Kuzzle's real-time engine

Multi-device support with offline capabilities

IoT protocol support

Custom plugins to implement customer specific business logic

Using ready-to-use IoT features from Kuzzle, we were able to prototype and develop very rapidly our IoT application to connect our bike fleet. Kuzzle provides very advanced real-time geo-tracking and geo-fencing features which really reduced the time to market for our IoT connected solution.